Heoi, ka tango au i taku ritenga Māori ka hoatu ki a koe te kaitaka me te pounamu hei whakanui i te ingoa o tērā kua mate nei— he ritenga tēnei e kīia ana he tāpae toto (TWMNT 6/2/1877:49). / And so I take my Māori custom and present you with a kaitaka cloak and greenstone to honour the name of he who has gone, this is a custom called a tāpae toto.
Ka whai take rā mātou ngā uri ki te tohe mō tō mātou noho tūturu, hāunga i runga i te tāpae toto anake, engari mā roto i te whakapapa ka hono i a mātou ki a Ngāti Maru me ngā iwi noho tai (a statement by Pakaariki Harrison of Ngāti Porou - Te Ara 2014)). / It gave us, the descendants, the right to argue the permanence of our tenure, not only in terms of the tāpae toto but in the preceding whakapapa that linked us through to Ngāti Maru from Ahuahu right through Ngāti Maru and all coastal people (Te Ara 2014).

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